15-foot python still awaiting fate
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

The 15-foot python in its cramped cage.

A week has gone by since a python was captured by a group of Indonesian foreign workers in Kg Menglait, Gadong, but the 15-foot snake is still coiled in the small iron cage awaiting its fate.

The Indonesian workers said yesterday that a buyer had paid $300 to own the python but until yesterday, the "new owner" had not claimed it.

"It has not eaten anything for one week," said the Indonesians, who kept the caged beast inside their room beside a garage where they work as car cleaners.

They said they were not sure what would happen to the python, whether it would end up on a dinner table or kept as pet by the buyer.

The Bulletin meanwhile published a letter from a member of the public yesterday who hoped that the python would be released to its natural habitat in the jungle.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin